An Evening with Author Rick Atkinson | Third Presbyterian Church
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Riverstone Books is delighted to welcome #1 New York Times bestselling author
Rick Atkinson
to talk about the second volume of his American Revolution trilogy,
The Fate of the Day.
We can't wait to see you there!
Please read all details below about the event and please reach out if you have any questions.
Event details:
Doors open at 6:00 pm, the event will start at 7:00 pm.
Books will be available for pick-up when you check-in at the event.
Every
VIP
ticket includes a pre-signed, hardcover copy of
The Fate of the Day
.
Additional books by the author will be available for sale at the event.
We will have a signing line after the talk if you would like your book personalized. The author will sign previous titles.
Your email confirmation will serve as your ticket. You may print it out and bring it or show us the confirmation on your phone at check-in.
Event tickets are non-refundable 7 days before the event (4/28 and later).
Ticketholders unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their books at either store location or have it shipped to them for $5.95.
We will hold books for up to 4 weeks
after the event. After 4 weeks, unclaimed books will no longer be available.
This ticketed event will take place at the
Third Presbyterian Church
, 5701 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, located in Shadyside. Limited free parking and disabled parking is available in the church parking lot. Additional parking is available in the Walnut Street parking lots and parking garage, 2 blocks away (see map below). If you need a handicapped parking space at the event, please email olivia@riverstonebooks.com. We will have 8 spaces available which will be reserved on a first come, first served basis.
About the author:
Rick Atkinson
is the #1
New York Times
bestselling author of seven previous works of history, including
The Long Gray Line
, the Liberation Trilogy (
An Army at Dawn
,
The Day of Battle
, and
The Guns at Last Light
), and
The British Are Coming
, the first volume of the Revolution Trilogy. He has won numerous awards, including Pulitzer Prizes for history and journalism.
About the book:
In the second volume of the landmark American Revolution trilogy by the Pulitzer Prize-winning and #1
New York Times
bestselling author of
The British Are Coming,
George Washington’s army fights on the knife edge between victory and defeat.
The first twenty-one months of the American Revolution—which began at Lexington and ended at Princeton—was the story of a ragged group of militiamen and soldiers fighting to forge a new nation. By the winter of 1777, the exhausted Continental Army could claim only that it had escaped annihilation by the world’s most formidable fighting force.
Two years into the war, George III is as determined as ever to bring his rebellious colonies to heel. But the king’s task is now far more complicated: fighting a determined enemy on the other side of the Atlantic has become ruinously expensive, and spies tell him that the French and Spanish are threatening to join forces with the Americans.
Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson provides a riveting narrative covering the middle years of the Revolution. Stationed in Paris, Benjamin Franklin woos the French; in Pennsylvania, George Washington pleads with Congress to deliver the money, men, and materiel he needs to continue the fight. In New York, General William Howe, the commander of the greatest army the British have ever sent overseas, plans a new campaign against the Americans—even as he is no longer certain that he can win this searing, bloody war. The months and years that follow bring epic battles at Brandywine, Saratoga, Monmouth, and Charleston, a winter of misery at Valley Forge, and yet more appeals for sacrifice by every American committed to the struggle for freedom.
Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Revolution, Atkinson’s brilliant account of the lethal conflict between the Americans and the British offers not only deeply researched and spectacularly dramatic history, but also a fresh perspective on the demands that a democracy makes on each of its citizens.
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